The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-08-11

JnY mouse IN order. lEat Is. tlX~ I'D
things, SO your going out of the world
may make as little CONSERVATION as pos
sible. See the lean cattle Gevouring the
fat cattle, and in the time of plenty pre-
pare for the time Of want The difficulty
Is. when men think of their death they
are afraid to think Of it onlyin connec-
ton with their spiritual welfare, and not
of The devastation III the household which
viii come because of Their emigration
from it. 1t is meanly selfish for you to
be so absorbed in the heacen to which
you are going that you forget what is to
become of your wife and children after
you are dead. You can go out of this
world without leaving dollar and yet die
happy if you could not provide for them:
you can trust them in the hands of the Gcd
who owns all the harvests, and the herds,
and the flocks; but if you could pay the
premiums on policy and neglect them.
it is a mean thing for you to go up to
heaven while they go into the poor
house. You, at death, move into a man
sion, river front, and they move into two
rooms on the fourth story Of a tenement
house in a back street. When they are
out at the elbows and knees the thought
of your splendid robe in heaven will not
keep them warm. The minister may
preach a splendid sermon over your re
mains, and the quartette may sing like
four angels in the organ loft, but your
death will be a swindle. You had. the
means to provide for the comfort Of your
household when you left it, and you
wickedly neglected it. ''Oh, says some
one, Il have more faith than you; be-
lieve when [ go out of this world the
Lord viii provide for them Go TO
Blackwell's Island, go through all the
poor houses of the country, and /
will show you how often God pro-
vides for the neglected children
of neglectful parents. That Is, he pro-
vides for them through public charity.
AS for myself, would rather have the
Lord provide for nay family in a private
home, and through my own industry,
and paternal and conjugal faithfulness.
But, says some man: Il mean i'll the
next ten or twenty years to make a great
fortune, and so I shall leave my family
when | go out of this world very COM
Portable How do you know you are
going to live ten or twenty years? If we
could look up the highway of the future
we would see it crossed by pneumonias,
and pleurisies, and consumptions, and
colliding rail trains, and runaway horses,
and breaking bridges and funeral process
sions. Are you so certain you are going
to live ten Or twenty years you can war
rant your household any comfort after
you go away from them? Beside that,
the vast majority Of men die poor, Two
only out Of 100 c;cceed cS;acceed IN business.
Are you very certain you are
going to be one Of the two? Rich
one day, poor the next. A man in New
York got $4,000, 900, and the money
turned his brain, and he died in the
lunatic asylum. All his property was
left with the business firm, and they
swamped it; and then the family Of the
insane man were left without dollar.
In eighteen months the prosperity, the
insanity, the insolvency, and the COM
plete domestic ruin. Beside that, there
are men who die solvent, who are insolv-
ent before they get under the ground, Or
before their estate is settled up. How
soon the auctiOneer' 5 mallet can knock
the life out of an estate. A man thinks
the property is worth S15, ,000; under a
forced sale it brings 81, 000. The business
man takes advantage of the crisis and he
compels the widow of his deceased part
ner to sell out to him at a ruinous
price, or lose all. The stock was sup
posed to be very valuable, but it has
been so ''watered'' that when the execu-
tor tries to sell it he is laughed out of
Wall street, or the administrator is or
dered by the surrogate to wind up the
whole affair. The estate was supposed
at the man S death to be worth $50, coo;
but after the Indebtedness had been met.
and the bills of the doctor, and the under
taker, and the tombstone cutter have been
paid, there is nothing left. That means
the children are to come home from school
and go to work. That means the com
plete hardship .oS the wife, turned out
with nothing but a needle to fight the
great battle of the world. Tear down the
lambrequins, close the piano, rip up the
| Administer, sell out the wardrobe, and
let the mother take child in each hand
and trUdge out into the desert of the
world. A life insurance weuld have
! hindered all that.
But says some one: Il am a man Of
! small means and | can't afford to pay
! the premium. - That is sometimes a
! lawful and a genuine excuse, and there
! is no answer to it; but in nine cases out
| of ten when a man says that, he smokes
up in cigars, and drinks down in wine,
and expends in luxuries enough money
to have paid Us ,,'reDlium on life insu-
rance policy which would have kept his
family from beggary when he is dead.
| A man ought to put himself down on the
strictest economy until he can meet this
Christian necessity, You have no right
to the luxuries OF life until you have
made such provision. 1 admire what
was said by Dir. Guthrie, the great Scot
tish preacher. A few years before his
death he stood in public meeting and
declared: ''When | came to Edinburgh
the people sometimes laughed at my blue
stockings, and at my cotton umbrella,
and they said / looked like a common
plowman, and they derided me be-
cause [ lived in house for which L paid
935 rent a year, and oftentimes walked
when I would have been very glad to
have a cab; but, gentlemen, / did all
that because l wanted to pay the pre-
MUM on a life insurance that would
keep my family comfortable if I should
die That I take to be the right ex-
preston of an honest, intelligent Chris
tan man.
The utter indifference of many people
on this important subject accounts for
much of the crime and pauperism of this
day. Who are these children sweeping
the crossings with broken broom and beg
ging of you a penny as you go by? Whc
are these lost souls gliding under the gas
light, in thin shawls? All, they are the
victims of want; in many of the cases the
forecast of parents and grandparent:
might have prohibited it. God only knows
how they struggled to do right. They
prayed until the tears froze on theil
checks, they sewed on the sack unit
the breaking of the day; but they could
not get enough money to pay the rent
they could not get enough money tx
decently clothe themselves; and one day
! in that wretched home the angel oi
purity and tie angel of crime fought ;